Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Linney

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

John Shelton Reed

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

John Ray

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Maria Sharapova

If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.

Nicole Kidman

I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.

Michael Cadnum

...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.

Masashi Kishimoto

A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.

Mason Cooley

Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.

Mason Cooley

The villain may be good looking, but his smile is never quite right.

Mason Cooley

To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses.

Mason Cooley

The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned.

Mason Cooley

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

Mason Cooley

Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.

Mason Cooley

Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

Mason Cooley

Sweet smiles soften judgment. Sweet haunches unseat it.

Mason Cooley

A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.

Mary-Kate Olsen

There are just some really beautiful people in the world. When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.

Michael Chang

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.

Oscar Wilde

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

Michael Jackson

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Michael Dolan

Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely

Michael Reagan

I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

If it rains, we'll get wet with a smile on our face.

He was always there for you, and he always had a big smile on his face.

John Robinson

He was always smiling. He just didn't like pictures, and wouldn't smile in them.

She's there at 8 a.m. with a smile on her face.

Bill Thomas

She had a big smile on her face.

Jim Allchin

If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

Jean Giraudoux

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Christopher Lasch

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Etta James

When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.